bronchi

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However, it rarely affects the bronchi and alveoli in the lungs.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2023

In severe asthma, the bronchi become chronically inflamed and constricted.

From Scientific American • May 4, 2023

R.S.V. predominantly affects the small airways, called bronchioles, that branch off from bronchi in the lungs.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2022

In the lungs, air is diverted into smaller and smaller passages, or bronchi.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The bronchi are fusiformly dilated at their commencement, where the rings which encircle them are not complete,- 116 - a membrane taking their place in that portion of each tube which is contiguous to its opposite neighbour.

From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)